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Kano -
Two bombings in a key Nigerian city targeting a prominent cleric and a former head-of-state killed at least 42 people on Wednesday, in the latest violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists.
In the Media
by Aminu Abubakar (AFP)
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Kano -
Two blasts rocked northern Nigeria's Kaduna city on Wednesday, killing at least 25 people, in what appeared to be a double bomb attack by Boko Haram Islamists.
In the Media
by Aminu Abubakar (AFP)
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Maiduguri -
Boko Haram gunmen killed many people in an attack in the restive northeast, throwing explosives into residential homes and shooting dead civilians who tried to surrender, an official and witnesses said Friday.
In the Media
by Bukar Hussain (AFP)
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While Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan dominate the news cycle, conflicts rage across the globe with little or no media coverage. These are the wars that aren’t being covered by Western media outlets.
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Los Angeles -
Officials at Los Angeles International Airport recently confiscated a shipment containing 67 live giant African snails. The snails were being shipped from Nigeria to an address in Southern California likely for human consumption.
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Lagos -
The head of Nigeria's Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a bombing in the capital Abuja and an attack hours later in Lagos which the authorities tried to cover up, in a video obtained by AFP Sunday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Pretoria -
Nigeria faces a prolonged battle to quash the bloody Boko Haram insurgency despite a "hardline" campaign that has witnessed rights abuses by both the state and the militants, according to a South African intelligence assessment obtained by AFP.
In the Media
by AFP
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Lagos -
Nigerian authorities, battling to stem an escalating Islamist insurgency, covered up a bomb attack in the financial capital Lagos by claiming a blast near a major fuel depot was an industrial accident, according to an AFP investigation.
In the Media
by Phil Hazlewood, Joel Olatunde Agoi (AFP)
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Maiduguri -
More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday, but more than 200 schoolgirls are still being held by the Islamists.
In the Media
by AFP
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The Algerian national football team has announced that it will donate the salary earned from the World Cup to the people of the Gaza Strip.
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Maiduguri -
A truck exploded in a huge fireball killing at least 15 people on Tuesday in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the latest attack in the area repeatedly hit by Boko Haram Islamists.
In the Media
by Bukar Hussain (AFP)
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Although Nigeria is classified as Africa’s superior team, Stephen Keshi’s persistence to continuously ignore his side’s glaring deficiencies placed the reigning African champions at a disadvantage against France.
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Kuda -
Football fans defied the threat of violence in Nigeria on Monday to support their team in the World Cup after a suspected Boko Haram attack on churches killed more than 50 people.
In the Media
by Aminu Abubakar (AFP)
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Mubarak Bala, a 29-year old chemical engineering graduate living in Nigeria, has been committed against his will to a psychiatric hospital in Kano state after he declared he didn't believe in God, much to the embarrassment of his family.
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Kuda -
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists attacked a series of churches on Sunday near Chibok, the northeast Nigeria town where more than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped in April, with dozens feared dead, witnesses said.
In the Media
by Bukar Hussain (AFP)
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Bauchi -
An explosion in the red light district of northern Nigeria's Bauchi city has killed 10 people and injured 14 others, police said Saturday.
In the Media
by AFP
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For some time now the Boko Haram fighters have waged yet another holy war and sowed terror through Nigerian areas. Now the environment is actually flushing them out of many of their hiding spots due to venomous snakes and bees.
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Abuja -
A bombing blamed on Boko Haram in the heart of Nigeria's capital has renewed fears of a worsening Islamist insurgency as security forces struggle to prevent attacks stretching from remote villages to the seat of government.
In the Media
by Ola Awoniyi (AFP)
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This wasn’t the first time Stephen Keshi’s Nigeria was susceptible to penetration between the lines, and it will serve as a great lesson ahead of their round of 16 tie against France.
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Maiduguri -
Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted more than 60 women and girls, some as young as three, in the latest kidnappings in northeast Nigeria and over two months since more than 200 schoolgirls were seized.
In the Media
by Bukar Hussain (AFP) - 1 comment
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Kano -
Unidentified gunmen killed 38 people, mostly women and children, in raids on two villages in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, an area plagued by years of sectarian conflict, officials said Tuesday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Maiduguri -
Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted more than 60 women and girls, some as young as three, in the latest kidnappings in northeast Nigeria and over two months since more than 200 schoolgirls were seized.
In the Media
by Bukar Hussain (AFP)
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Kano -
A bomb blast at a public health college in Nigeria's second city of Kano killed at least eight people on Monday, in the latest violence to hit an area repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram.
In the Media
by AFP
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Kano -
Boko Haram militants were on Wednesday suspected of carrying out a deadly bomb attack against football fans watching the World Cup in northern Nigeria, in the latest violence targeting the game.
In the Media
by Aminu Abubakar (AFP)
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Maiduguri -
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped at least 20 young mothers near a town in northeast Nigeria where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted nearly two months ago, sources told AFP on Tuesday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Maiduguri -
Hundreds of people are feared dead in a suspected Boko Haram attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria, in the latest upsurge in violence claiming increasing numbers of civilian lives.
In the Media
by Bukar Hussain (AFP)
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Maiduguri -
Forty-five people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen pretending to be preachers in a village near the group's spiritual home in northeast Nigeria, two residents said on Thursday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Maiduguri -
Hundreds of people are feared dead in a suspected Boko Haram attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria, in the latest upsurge in violence claiming increasing numbers of civilian lives.
In the Media
by Bukar Hussain (AFP)
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Ibadan -
A Nigerian man who allegedly conned an Australian pensioner out of $90,000 in an online dating scam has appeared in court charged with deception, the country's anti-graft agency said on Thursday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Abuja -
Supporters of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants filed a complaint Tuesday against a ban on protests in Nigeria's capital, calling the ruling illegal and unconstitutional.
In the Media
by Ola Awoniyi (AFP)
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Most urban middle income Nigerian families provide water for themselves: This family has a well equipped with a water pump. Note the plastic storage tanks beside the well
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Jonathan Goodluck, Nigeria, President.
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Parents of victims last month's mass kidnapping from a school in northeastern Nigeria express sorrow and outrage
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A truck promotes the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag used by protesters of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping.
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Chinua Achebe
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A traffic situation at a major junction in Lagos.
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A ram positioned for eventual slaughtering during Eid al Adha
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Power Holding Company area office, Monatan, Ibadan
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MILITANCY: Map of Nigeria with shaded areas showing activity by Islamic militant Boko Haram organization.
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"Gospel Faith Ministries International" is an indigenous church.
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Theme logo of the film Festival held in Lagos, south west Nigeria
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